Window-screen.



W. B. MILLER.

WINDOW SCREEN.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 15, 1911.

1,017,266. Patented Feb .13,1912.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 15, 1911.

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UNITED STATES WILLIAM B. MILLER, OF PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS.

WINDOW-SCREEN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 15,

Patented Feb. 13, 1912.

1911. Serial No. 638,704.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. MiLLnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pine Bluff, in the county of J eflerson and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window- Screens, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in adjustable window screens and has for its object to provide a very simple and eflicient device of this character which is pivotally mounted in the frame for swinging movement and is vertically slidable therein.

A further object of the invention is to provide suitable guide members carried by the screen and engaging guide strips on the window frame, certain of said guide members embodying means for sustaining the screen in an intermediate position, and also facilitating its complete insertion or removal.

Still another object of the invention is to improve the construction and increase the efficiency of a device of this character without materially increasing the cost of manufacture.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention consists of the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation showing my improved screen arranged in the window frame; Fig. 2 is a section takenon the line 22 of Fig. 1 showing the screen swung outwardly in dotted lines; Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 1 is a detail perspective view of the screen removed.

Referring in detail to the drawings 5 indicates a window frame of the ordinary construction having the sashes 6 slidably arranged therein. To opposite sides of the frame 5 and inwardly of the sashes 6, the guide bars or cleats 7 are secured, Suitable facing strips 8 are secured to the window frame but are of less width than said frame so that the inner edges of the longitudinal side bars of the frame project inwardly of the facing strips as indicated at 5. Upon the bars or cleats 7, my improved screen is mounted.

As shown more clearly in Fig. 4 of the drawings, the screen proper is of the usual form and consists of a rectangular frame 9 in which a suitable wire mesh is secured. The sides of the window frame are formed with the vertical ribs 10 between the window sashes 6 and the screen, said ribs being disposed in spaced parallel relation to the cleats 7 upon which the sliding screen is mounted. To the upper end of the screen at opposite sides thereof the metal guide members 11 are secured, said members be ing substantially U-shaped in cross sectional form and having one of their flanges 11 of greater length than the other so that said flanges overlap upon the projecting inner edge portions 5 of the window frame. The other flanges of the guide members move between the cleats 7 and the vertical ribs 10 of the frame and the upper ends of said flanges are free from the intermediate body portion of the guide members and form spring tongues 12 which are adapted to frictionally engage with the ribs 10 of the window frame to maintain said screen in an intermediate position in the frame and prevent its gravity movement.

It will be observed that the lower ends of the cleats 7 terminate at a point above the base of the window frame. The space thus provided indicated at 13 is adapted to receive the lower guide members 14L which .are rigidly fixed to opposite sides of the screen frame. The parallel flanges of these lower guide members are of equal width and are adapted to move through the spaces 13 in the swinging movement of the screen, said screen at its upper end being pivot-ally mounted on the pins 15 which are fixed in the upper ends of the guide members 11.

To the vertical inner edge portions 5 of the window frame, the stop members 16 are rigidly fixed. These members may be of any desired form but are preferably each constructed from a metal bar having one end angularly bent and disposed in a transverse plane with relation to the frame, the extremity thereof engaging with said frame. These stop members are engaged by the lower ends of the upper guides 11 carried by the screen and prevent further downward movement of said guide members when the screen is swung outwardly from the frame. To the lower end of the screen frame, a stop plate 17 is secured and is adapted to engage with the base portion of the window frame to limit the inward movement of the screen when the same is in its lowered position. A hook 18 is also secured to the lower end of the frame and is adapted for engagement in aneye 19 secured to the base or sill board of the frame whereby said screen may be rigidly held in position and its sliding or pivotal movement prevented. A suitable fingerpiece or loop 20 is also secured to the screen frame by means of which the screen may be conveniently raised or lowered.

From the foregoing it will be seen that I have devised a very novel mounting for window screens whereby they may be readily raised or lowered and held in their adjusted position or swung outwardly from the window frame when it may be desired to have the window entirely open and unobstructed.

The device is extremely simple, highly durable in practical use and may be manufactured at a comparatively low cost.

Vhile I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of the invention, it will be understood that the same is susceptible of numerous minor modifications without materially departing from the essential feature or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

Having thus described the what is claimed is 1. The combination with a window frame having vertical guide cleats secured to opposite sides thereof, of a screen slidably mounted in said frame, 'uide plates at the upper and lower ends of the screen mov able upon said cleats, said screen being pivotally mounted between the guide plates at its upper end and having outward swinging movement with relation to the window frame when in its lowered position, and means for preventing further downward movement of the screen in the window frame in the swinging movement thereof.

2. The combination with a window frame having vertical guide cleats secured to opposite sides thereof, of a screen slidably mounted therein, and substantially U-shaped guide plates carried by the screen at its upper and lower ends and movable upon said cleats, said upper guide plates embodying resilient sustaining means adapted for frictional engagement with the window frame to retain the screen in a raised position invention therein.

3. The combination with awindow frame, of a screen slidably mounted therein, guide members secured to the upper ends of the screen at opposite sides thereof engaging the frame to guide the screen in its sliding movement, said guide members also embodying sustaining means to support the screen against gravity movement in the window frame.

4t. The combination with a window frame having vertical guide cleats secured to opposite sides thereof and terminating above the base of the frame, of a screen slidably mounted in said frame, guide members secured to the upper and lower ends of the screen at opposite edges thereof movable upon said cleats, said screen being pivotally mounted between the upper guide members for swinging movement when the screen is in its lowered position, the lower guide members being transversely movable between the base of the frame and the lower end of said cleats, and means secured to the frame to prevent further downward movement of the upper guide members in the pivotal movement of the screen.

5. The comblnatlon with a wlndow frame having vertical guide cleats secured to op posite sides thereof and terminating above the base of said frame, guide members arranged upon the upper and lower ends of said screen and on opposite edges thereof for movement upon said cleats, said guide members being of U-shaped form in section, said screen being pivotally arranged between the upper guide members, said mem bers having one of their parallel flanges of greater width than the other and extending upon the sides of the window frame, the other of said flanges being provided at their upper ends with spring tongues for engagement with the frame to sustain the screen therein against gravity movement, said lower guide members being movable beneath the guide cleats in the pivotal movement of the screen, and stop members secured to opposite sides of the window frame and engaged by the upper guide members to prevent their downward movement in the pivotal movement of said screen.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIE B. MILLER. Vitnesses VM. L. MATTi-mws, J. A. BUSKIRK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

